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No Un Anniversary Coin In U.s.

November 12, 1995|By Daniel Webster, Knight-Ridder/Tribune.

The United States is the only one of the five permanent members of the Security Council not to issue coins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Great Britain, France, China and Russia have approved designs for coins and will issue gold and silver proofs.

While the U.S. Congress has not authorized a coin, a UN/Truman commemorative is among those proposed by the citizens committee advising the mint and Congress on commemorative coins.

Great Britain was the first to announce a UN coin. Its two-pound gold proof will show an array of flags. The French five-franc gold piece bears the dove of peace. The Russian 50-ruble gold proof carries the double eagle design on its obverse and the statue at UN headquarters, by Eugene Vuczeticz, of swords being beaten into plowshares on the reverse. The Chinese 50-yuan coin shows the UN headquarters building.